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My Life As a Gamer
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My Life As a Gamer

50 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Bachir Boumaaza, known to millions of gamers as Athene, built Gaming for Good, a website where developers donate copies of their games so that anyone who gives to charity gets free games in return. The money flows to Save the Children, funding work with kids in Malawi, Indonesia, and Bangladesh, and the film follows Boumaaza as he talks through how a livestreaming community turned into a fundraising machine. He describes handing out donated supplies in person and watching a child's life change in front of him, and recounts a U.S. Marine who gave an entire paycheck after seeing the campaign's results. Boumaaza insists he is just the voice amplifying what gamers themselves built, and the film traces that claim back to his earlier activism, including NEE, a political organization he co-founded in Belgium. Interview footage carries most of the film, with Boumaaza reflecting on charity, philosophy, and what it means to call gaming culture a force for good rather than a distraction from it.